Well good luck mate, you’ve done well to have the courage to go for it.
Quitting your job without having anything lined up
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Daz1878
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Many years ago I was in a job which, for several reasons, had made me very miserable. I handed in my notice and set about lining up other work as a freelancer, which is what I really wanted to do. I took a fair bit of stick for my decision to quit, not least from family and (esp.) in-laws, but luckily my better half was very supportive - even though the situation wasn't ideal. It really didn't help that few refused to recognise my new work as a "proper" job. Obviously I didn't go into every detail about why I needed to leave, but the sense of disrespect for others' careful decisions has always stuck with me: people seem to think that those who quit jobs do it on a whim, which I think is rarely the case - there's usually a long, complicated and troubled history leading up to the decision to resign, and it's frankly none of their f'in business.
No. 2 son quit working 16hrs a day for the (ungrateful) man and basically took a year off loafing about, good job too I kept telling him he looked like a heart attack waiting to happen.
Started his own firm, went back part time (on his terms) consultant and hired out to others.
No.1 son saw this and (finally) did the same.
6mths into a 9mth contract him and his missus (different company, no names XXXX ) both quit to go with 3 kids on a 6mth off-road trip around Australia...tbh, I think it was her Idea, before the kids get too old.
Rather than seeing their arses, they said OK, put stuff in place and get you 2IC up to speed and come back when you're done.
He realises that in 6mths things may, probably will change, but its handy to have in your back pocket
Monkey see monkey do, No.2 son started the ball rolling and might copy him yet
Work to live not live to work
Started his own firm, went back part time (on his terms) consultant and hired out to others.
No.1 son saw this and (finally) did the same.
6mths into a 9mth contract him and his missus (different company, no names XXXX ) both quit to go with 3 kids on a 6mth off-road trip around Australia...tbh, I think it was her Idea, before the kids get too old.
Rather than seeing their arses, they said OK, put stuff in place and get you 2IC up to speed and come back when you're done.
He realises that in 6mths things may, probably will change, but its handy to have in your back pocket
Monkey see monkey do, No.2 son started the ball rolling and might copy him yet
Work to live not live to work
Handed my notice in last Friday but luckily I do have another job lined up. I made the decision last September that work was making me miserable so I went to my GP and got signed off work. I am lucky that I am entitled to 6 months full pay whilst on sick leave before it goes down to half pay so I basically knew I had 6 months max to find something new. Luckily for me I was offered a new position in December, I accepted and in late January I had confirmation that all my pre employment checks had cleared, handed in my 4 weeks notice and start my new job beginning of March.
widnesblue
Player Valuation: £20m
Sometimes it’s worth doing if you are truly miserable in your line of work. It’s not worth staying in a job if you are unhappy. I’m giving up a good wage and 13 weeks holidays plus weekends off but not worth it having to put up working for no enjoyment.
I do but then I remember I'm skint and think better of it.
tommye
Player Valuation: £120m
Handed my notice in Friday, leave this Friday.
Nothing 100% lined up yet.
Hate the firm I'm now working for (following TUPE transfer last year) despite earning more money I've never been so unhappy in a job, so gonna bite the bullet and walk away with nothing, losing 11 years service, rather than work another week for them. Feel great about it tbh
Nothing 100% lined up yet.
Hate the firm I'm now working for (following TUPE transfer last year) despite earning more money I've never been so unhappy in a job, so gonna bite the bullet and walk away with nothing, losing 11 years service, rather than work another week for them. Feel great about it tbh
Fair play to anyone who takes the plunge.
I've been thinking about it for ages, and have built up enough savings to do it without too much concern, but seeing pals who are on their arse and have better qualifications than I struggle to get anything half decent just puts me off.
I've been thinking about it for ages, and have built up enough savings to do it without too much concern, but seeing pals who are on their arse and have better qualifications than I struggle to get anything half decent just puts me off.
Philw
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tommye
Player Valuation: £120m
All good thank you squire.You ok tommye???
Hate to leave a job I enjoyed so much but the company I had the misfortune to be employed by are the worst I've ever experienced. I'll be doing the same work but for a different company when I've had a l'il break. So, I'm now officially a man of leisure. For a week anyway.
witchdoc187
Player Valuation: £60m
I quit my job twice 5 years apart to spend a year in South America and second time for a year in central America. I'm currently unemployed but have spent the best part of the last 2 years spending every day with my 3.5 year old son. People in my office haven't even moved roles in this time. Some don't see their kids and pay hundreds a month for someone else to look after them.I've got to start looking for a job now which is pretty daunting but who cares? I've managed up until now
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wainy
Player Valuation: £35m
Always made sure I have had something to go into when I have quit roles, enough pressure hating the current job without leaving to have nothing lined up.
Left my last job in an aerospace company as the management were absolute wastemen, shop foreman on your case all the time if you happened to open your mouth or if your break over ran by a couple of mins. Never been so unhappy in my life. Decided to do a few courses in my own time and hunt for jobs. Kept my head down even though I despised it and after 6 months found something else in a different field after working in aviation for the past 13 years. Pay is better, get better benefits, get to manage my own time and workload. Have since been offered jobs on quite a bit more money but the work life balance would be crap and money isn’t my motivator, although it is always nice to earn more I guess.
Best advice I could give is to sort your cv out, be patient and not make any rash decisions. Sometimes you just have to wait it out but there is some good opportunities out there.
Left my last job in an aerospace company as the management were absolute wastemen, shop foreman on your case all the time if you happened to open your mouth or if your break over ran by a couple of mins. Never been so unhappy in my life. Decided to do a few courses in my own time and hunt for jobs. Kept my head down even though I despised it and after 6 months found something else in a different field after working in aviation for the past 13 years. Pay is better, get better benefits, get to manage my own time and workload. Have since been offered jobs on quite a bit more money but the work life balance would be crap and money isn’t my motivator, although it is always nice to earn more I guess.
Best advice I could give is to sort your cv out, be patient and not make any rash decisions. Sometimes you just have to wait it out but there is some good opportunities out there.
I couldn't think of one thing for the 'Your biggest regret' thread...mainly coz I've made a lot of choices I could've done different, but then who can tell it they would've been better*shrugs.
Anywho...
4 words - 2 points
1) do a few courses - THIS IS ESSENTIAL...you can't do too many, you don't have to put them all on the CV and risk being over qualified, tailor them to suit...if the vibe is ok you can throw them in the pot at the interview as a sweetener
2) Don't think short term
I did at 48 - looking back, one of the worst things I never did.
Today I can look back and say it turned out ok...but only for a given value of ok.
If you don't buy a ticket you'll never win the raffle.
Billy Dean
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I hadn't forgotten lads, just been a bit busy!
In the end I haven't gone through with it yet. I was genuinely working my way up to it. I know what field truly interests me and what I would go into if I could roll back time to the start of my career again. I signed up to do an online masters in that field.....then quit after 2 weeks haha. I realised I wasn't ready to make the kind of sacrifices to my social life and hobbies that would've been necessary to do the online masters. I also saw a career advisor who used to work in that field and he said even with the masters it would still be a very long road.
And that has led me to reevaluate things a bit. I followed the advice of some earlier posters who said if you can't change your circumstances, change your attitude. So I've been training myself to give less of a fuk about everything that goes on at work. Which has been going generally well so far. I've been able to do that by just telling myself I've got savings and I've been looking at all the other possibilities there are in the outside world. I could move wherever I want, learn new things etc. I went through my LinkedIn contacts and saw how people who have left where I work, sometimes under a cloud, and who are now doing well etc. I made a mistake the other week and initially got into a panic about it, then thought of all the cool things I could do if they fired me on the spot and started looking forward to it. So I've gone from stressed to the max and miserable to feeling pretty relaxed about things. Most of the trouble makers mentioned earlier in the thread have been managed out with more under the gun. So things are ok at the moment and more positive. My employer's paying for me to do a training course that will be good for my CV too so it's good at the moment.
The only problem is I'm bored of going that place and still not working in the field that really interests me which nags at me a bit, so I haven't erased it from my mind completely, but I'll try to find a another way to get involved. I might go back to study again full time if I lose my job or change my mind again and quit, otherwise I've been doing some volunteering remotely so may look to develop that. But I'm not getting overly stressed about it. Telling myself a lot of people don't do work they're passionate about and still have happy lives and also telling myself it's not worth getting ill because of a few bellends in an office. So I'm just taking it easy at the moment. I also moved down the road to a big city where there's more opportunity to go out and be around people and have fun outside of work which helps no end too. I'm still very fatigued but the high stress levels have gone right down so hopefully things are going in the right direction.
Edit: thanks for all the advice from everyone posting in this thread, especially 2 sound lads who helped me via DM. I will deffo refer back to this thread if in a low ebb again.
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